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Last weekend I had the chance to coach at the Django Girls workshop in Zurich. More than 40 girls came into contact with the world of programming for the first time this weekend. It was impressive what the girls learned in such a short time. The workshop In order to keep the entry hurdles as…

Last week we travelled to the hipster capital Berlin to see the latest trends of the Ember.js world at the EmberFest. More than 100 Ember developers and fans were there – including some of the biggest names of the scene, like Erik Bryn or Lauren Tan. In two days full of talks, we were not…

Ceph is on everyone’s lips and, at the latest since Red Hat has acquired Inktank, the software defined storage solution has arrived in the enterprise segment. Ceph promises nothing less than to turn the storage market on its head, which is dominated by large players such as NetApp, EMC and others. SUSE is also entering…

Yubikeys (manufactured by Yubico) are inexpensive hardware tokens for multi-factor authentication. In addition to Yubikeys, Yubico also manufactures YubiHSM, which are Hardware Security Modules. HSM are used to store various x509 private keys in hardware, so they cannot be stolen by hackers. Apart from Yubico, there is also, for example, the manufacturer Nitrokey, who manufactures…

Early last Friday morning, three scouts from the Adfinis SyGroup AG made their way to the Gurten – the famous local mountain of the city of Bern. They weren’t there to enjoy the lovely view, however. They came to sit behind closed curtains in dimly lit rooms, to witness the “Future of Web Development”: Jazoon…

The SUSE Manager 3 beta programme was started at the end of December 2015. We would like to take this opportunity to gain a basic understanding of what the next version will offer. To start, the most important change is the integration of [SaltStack] as a remote execution and configuration management framework. We have selected…

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In this day and age, hacker attacks are an all too common occurrence. This is why it is more important than ever to keep data secured but without making it significantly harder to access. Multi-factor authentication is a tool that allows you to do precisely that. Security should be a topic for everyone (individuals and…

Imagine you get a login for Unix-Box running on some esoteric hardware. On that box you find a 10 mloc C++/C/Java project, with many custom domain specific languages and file formats. You may not take the source to your computer, because it belongs to the customer. You may change the source and build it on…

A Univention Corporate Server (UCS) is not particularly suited for configuration by Ansible, since many tasks have to be done either via the Web GUI or via special Bash commands. Examples of this are creating, modifying or deleting users and groups. Since we still want to automatically install and configure UCS from the Adfinis SyGroup,…